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Old Mar 28, 2017 | 6:34 am
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rubesl
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We went to Peru 3/14/17 - 3/25 & were in Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, & Puerto Maldonado (Amazon jungle). Puerto is on the edge of the CDCs malaria & yellow fever warning area. We got typhoid & yellow fever vacs & are still taking Malarone (started one day before going to Puerto & have to keep taking seven days after). We already had Hep A & B, & Tdap. When we got to Puerto the Inkaterra rep taking us 45 min. up the Madre de Dios river announced they had no malaria, zika, etc. so we didn't have to take malaria pills. We all felt this was a tourism marketing ploy and we all continued our Malarone (better safe than sorry) - malaria has a seven day incubation period so most people would have gone home before symptoms develop & the people in the Puerto area (or the Inkaterra lodge) would never know about it.
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